Perfect topic for a series of articles, its something I see a lot of people asking about (that and how to train while recovering from an injury)

However there were too few spelling errors to get that sense of community involvement in the writing process, perhaps we can dedicate this thread to finding synonyms for some of the words you used instead

Cool article. I've wondered before if I'm 'overtraining', but my life-gets-in-the-way breaks of sometimes a week, sometimes 4 days, etc. happens way too often for me to believe that my 3-4 (sometimes 5 if I'm feeling real good) a week running or weight lifting really makes me get even close. I've been guilty of wondering about the "I feel a little tired.....I wonder if I'm overtraining" train of thought before. Once about 10 months ago I might've been overreaching....otherwise, no.

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As for the little things...

Last sentence under the "What is Overtraining?" heading:

as youíll see, the earlier parts of the definition sort of assume information about the earlier parts.
I'm guessing one of these should be changed to "latter"....

Iím actually going to be difficult and look at them in reverse order since, as youíll see, the earlier parts of the definition sort of assume information about the earlier parts.

latter

if you recovery within 2-3 weeks, you were only over-reached.

recover - no hyphen in overreached

and non-functional over-reaching (where you donít). But thatís sort of beside the point of what I want to talk about.

no hyphen

Between those two things, over-training or even overreaching tends to be rare in the general population

no hyphen

And since they rarely miss training ever in the first place and go at it week in and week out and month in and month out, they can really do themselves some damage when they start falling into that trap

remove word "ever"

When you finally do get them to rest, it can take months or longer for them to come back

Iím actually going to be difficult and look at them in reverse order since, as youíll see, the earlier parts of the definition sort of assume information about the earlier parts.

latter

if you recovery within 2-3 weeks, you were only over-reached.

recover - no hyphen in overreached

and non-functional over-reaching (where you donít). But thatís sort of beside the point of what I want to talk about.

no hyphen

Between those two things, over-training or even overreaching tends to be rare in the general population

no hyphen

And since they rarely miss training ever in the first place and go at it week in and week out and month in and month out, they can really do themselves some damage when they start falling into that trap

remove word "ever"

When you finally do get them to rest, it can take months or longer for them to come back

punctuate the end of the sentence

Got all the first ones but the punctuation on that last sentence is after the unnecessary parenthetical statement.